Quote by Fernando Flores

To play is to listen to the imperative inner force that wants to take form and be acted out without reason. It is the…

— Michele Cassou

“To play is, in some sense, actively to make your own fun. Players are entertaining themselves, whether the play is peekaboo, cards, tennis, or…

— D. Brent Laytham

If you think of play as being in things, there are things that are playable, then it becomes the work of figuring out what…

— Ian Bogost

Play is this process of operating the world, of manipulating things. It's related to experimentation, and it's related to pleasure, but not defined by…

— Ian Bogost

The whole idea of play is in finding, acknowledging, and then working with the natural constraints and limitations that you find in the world.

— Ian Bogost

Play is the state of mind that we can use in our creative process to our advantage.

— Jessica Walsh

“When an activity is done to win, to advance, to achieve—even if it’s “fun” to do so—it’s not play. It may be a wonderful…

— Bill Burnett

Play is the way that human beings learn about the world. That's how we discover how things work.

— Katie Salen

Play is a subset of voluntary behaviour involving a selective mechanism which reverses the usual contingencies of power so as to permit the subject…

— Brian Sutton-Smith

To play is to listen to the imperative inner force that wants to take form and be acted out without reason.

— Michele Cassou

Play isn't you being clever, or finding a trick, or finding a way of covering over your own misery, or persuading someone to do…

— Ian Bogost

For since most of our living is unconscious, play is like matchstrokes in the void, bringing into light the structures we behave by, illuminating…

— Mary Caroline Richards